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In general appearance this is very similar to R. Ekmanii 

 Britton & Standley, but that species differs in having narrow 

 calyx-lobes which are broadest at base. 



Rondeletia ingrata Standley, sp. nov. 



Shrub 4 m. high or less, the branches stout, terete, blackish 

 or gray, the branchlets densely pilose with short ascending hairs, 

 the inernodes 2-4 mm. long; stipules triangular or broadly tri- 

 angular, 1.5-2 mm. long, acute, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, 

 the petioles stout, 1.5-3 mm. long, minutely grayish-pilose; leaf- 

 blades oblong-elliptic, 6-15 mm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, obtuse or 

 rounded-obtuse at apex, obtuse at base, thick-coriaceous, with 

 revolute or subrevolute, much thickened margins, green above, 

 the venation obsolete, when young densely pilose with minute 

 appressed hairs, in age glabrate, beneath covered with a very 

 dense, minute, grayish tomentum, along the nerves sericeous 

 with longer hairs, the costa and lateral nerves elevated, the veins 

 prominently reticulate; inflorescences axillary, usually 3-flow- 

 ered, sometimes i-flowered, the peduncles stout, 2-3 mm. long, 

 the flowers sessile; bracts and bractlets deltoid; hypanthium 

 densely tomentose; calyx-lobes usually 5, sometimes 4, oblong- 

 ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm. long; corolla not seen; capsule globose, 

 3 mm. in diameter, densely tomentose; seeds minute, compressed, 

 brown, exalate. 



Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 collected on dry gravelly hills, at Cajobabo, valley of the Rio 

 Jojo, southern Baracoa region, Cuba, July 17 to August 4, 1924, 

 {Brother Leon 12415). Also collected in the same region, at 

 Jauco Arriba {Brother Leon 11S65). 



Related to R. camarioca Wright and, according to description, 

 to R. Norlindii Urban. The former differs in the velvety pu- 

 bescence of the upper leaf surface; the latter in its i-flowered 

 peduncles and smaller leaves, glabrous on the upper surface. 



Rondeletia gaultherioides Standley, sp. nov. 



Shrub, the stout branches terete, dark red-brown, with 

 elongate internodes, when young densely pilose with long och- 

 raceous erect-patent hairs; stipules lance-ovate, 5-8 mm. long, 

 acuminate, persistent, densely appressed-pilose; leaves opposite, 

 the petioles stout, 3-5 mm. long, pilose with subappressed hairs; 

 leaf-blades ovate-oval to oblong-elliptic, 3-10 cm. long, 1.7-5.5 

 cm. wide, abruptly acute to obtuse at apex, rounded or shallowly 

 cordate at base, thick-coriaceous, somewhat lustrous above, when 

 young sparsely appressed-pilose but soon glabrate, the costa 

 impressed, the other venation prominulous, beneath dull, sparsely 



